Dialogue

 1 Intro|       foes begin to appear under old names. Plato is now chiefly
 2 Intro|      having recourse to a famous old tradition, which may amuse
 3 Intro|      prone to doubt the tales of old. You have heard what happened
 4 Intro|         the narrative is; as the old returned to youth, so the
 5 Intro|          Would he persist in his old commands, under the idea
 6 Intro|         Socrates, who is not too old to be amused ‘with a tale
 7 Intro|          you will think to be an old wife’s tale, but you can
 8 Intro|         so often observed in the old Greek revolutions, and not
 9 Intro|         that Plato was soured by old age, but certainly the kindliness
10 Intro|        were far worse now in his old age than they had been in
11 State|        in wisdom when you are an old man. And now, as you say,
12 State|    divisions, and proceed in the old path until we arrive at
13 State|        hear; and you are not too old for childish amusement.~
14 State|   SOCRATES: Yes, that is another old tradition.~STRANGER: All
15 State|         more forgetting, and the old discord again held sway
16 State|       the gifts spoken of in the old tradition were imparted
17 State| persuading any, whether young or old, to act contrary to the